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Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of ©

Date 2013-09-02 10:23 +1000
From Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
Subject Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of ©
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On 01Sep2013 17:03, materile11@gmail.com <materile11@gmail.com> wrote:
| <code>
| >>> a = 'E:\Dropbox\jjfsdjjsdklfj\sdfjksdfkjslkj\flute.wav'
| >>> a.split('\')
| SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal
| </code>
| 
| I think that the character '\' is the problem, but unfortunately I'm developing a small app for windows and I need to show only the name of the .wav file, in this case 'flute.wav'.

Firstly, you want to say '\\' for a slosh (just as you would say '\n' for a linefeed).

However, you really should use the os.path module, in particular os.path.split().

Have a read of:
  http://docs.python.org/3/library/os.path.html#module-os.path
  http://docs.python.org/2/library/os.path.html#module-os.path

| I also want to know how to mirror a character, in my case this
| one ©, because I'll use the Copyleft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft
| to distribute my app.

Isn't that a copyright symbol? I'd have a look at the "uncidoedata" module,
myself.

Cheers,
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

Just because Unix is a multiuser system doesn't mean I want to share it with
anybody!        - Paul Tomblin, in rec.aviation.military

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How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © materile11@gmail.com - 2013-09-01 17:03 -0700
  Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2013-09-02 10:23 +1000
  Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-09-01 19:34 -0500
    Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © materile11@gmail.com - 2013-09-01 21:20 -0700
  Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-09-01 19:40 -0500
  Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2013-09-01 19:40 -0700
    Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-09-02 13:22 -0700
      Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-03 02:06 +0000
        Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-09-03 05:31 -0500
        Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © random832@fastmail.us - 2013-09-03 14:31 -0400
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            Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of � Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-09-06 02:15 -0400
            Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of © random832@fastmail.us - 2013-09-06 09:29 -0400
            Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of � Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-09-11 11:16 +0100

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